Michel Kevin Taylor, a local contractor, has been arrested on felony charges of deceptive business practices and home improvement fraud after taking an advanced payment of $2,500 from an Old Lycoming Township woman for work to be done on her outdoor pool, but Taylor did not complete the work or return the money to the customer, Lycoming Regional police alleged in an affidavit.

Back in late April 2024, the woman gave Taylor, who also goes by TNT Home Improvement, two payments for the work, police said, adding that Taylor, 44, of 2091 Field Station Road, Trout Run, initially “ripped up some concrete” but allegedly never returned to the property after that. Three months later, in early July, the woman terminated Taylor and demanded her money back, police said. In a text message to Taylor two weeks later, the woman demanded “Where is my money? Do I need to contact my lawyer,” it was stated in an affidavit. In his reply, Taylor told her if she “wanted to waste more money, she could,” the court document stated. Following his arraignment last week before District Judge Aaron Biichle, Taylor was released on $30,000 bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled June 10.